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Some Bank of Japan policy board members have started to dissent from the wait-and-see approach of their colleagues.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 28, 2025
Bank of Japan expected to sit this one out and keep benchmark rate at 0.5%
Even though inflation remains high, so too does uncertainty.
Food inflation was highlighted as one of three factors to watch in deciding the timing of the central bank’s next rate hike.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 24, 2025
Japan’s faster inflation highlights need for Takaichi response
New Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has made confronting the cost of living crunch a priority.
Rengo President Tomoko Yoshino speaks at a news conference on Thursday. She said the union is looking to make wage hikes a normal occurrence.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 23, 2025
Japan’s unions seek minimum 5% wage hike in upcoming pay talks
Sanae Takaichi’s tenure and the central bank's policy path could be affected if Japan can’t keep up its wage-hike momentum.
Hitoshi Inoue, head of Bank of Yokohama’s markets business
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025
Top Japan local bank ready to boost JGB buying when BOJ pivots
Bank of Yokohama is prepared to pile back into the domestic debt market when the central bank’s peak interest rate is in sight.
Most economists in a survey predict that the Bank of Japan will not raise its benchmark rate at its policy meeting this month.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 23, 2025
BOJ watchers push back rate hike call after Takaichi takes helm
Some 10% of 50 economists predict the BOJ will raise its benchmark rate at the end of a two-day policy meeting on Oct. 30, plunging from 36% in the previous survey.
Bank of Japan building in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2025
BOJ board hawk calls for rate hike as Japan’s price norm shifts
"I believe that now is a prime opportunity to raise the policy interest rate,” Takata said in a speech to local business leaders in Hiroshima.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda (left) speaks during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 17, 2025
Ueda keeps door open for BOJ rate hike as decision nears
Financial markets reflect a narrow chance of a rate hike at the end of this month.
Bank of Japan building in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Oct 16, 2025
BOJ’s most hawkish member calls for rate hike amid price risks
Tamura's latest remarks suggest little shift in his stance even after Japan’s political landscape turned murky in recent weeks.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivers remarks on Wednesday on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 16, 2025
Bessent says yen will settle if BOJ keeps taking right policies
The statement follows the U.S. treasury secretary's remarks in August that Japan’s central bank was behind the curve in addressing inflation.
Amid the election of Sanae Takaichi as Liberal Democratic Party president, and possibly the next prime minister, Japan's economy shows signs of recovery, but weak wages, a conservative corporate culture and currency issues raise doubts about a true economic thaw.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2025
Hypothermia in the land of the rising Sanae
Of late, the country has suddenly given every impression of heat. There are good reasons to believe hypothermia is over.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi mark a win by a party candidate in the July 2013 Upper House election. There is ongoing debate over whether Takaichi's economic approach will mirror the former prime minister's Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2025
The 'Takaichi trade' isn’t Abenomics 2.0, and that’s OK
Party leader Takaichi has been left with one of the poorest positions imaginable. The LDP is a minority in both houses of parliament.
Sanae Takaichi, leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has said that the government bears responsibility for both fiscal and monetary policy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 9, 2025
BOJ meddling by Takaichi seen as unwise and ineffective
It's her versus the markets and inflation-weary Japanese households.
Nominal wages rose 1.5% in August from a year earlier, decelerating from 3.4% in the previous month, according to a report from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2025
Japan’s wage growth slows, underscoring challenge for Takaichi
Nominal wages increased 1.5% in August from a year earlier, decelerating from 3.4% in the previous month and falling below economist expectations.
Etsuro Honda, who advises the ruling party's head Sanae Takaichi on economic policies, says a rate hike by the Bank of Japan this month would be difficult.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025
Takaichi adviser and Abenomics architect says October too soon for BOJ rate hike
Remarks by Etsuro Honda, who advises the new ruling-party leader on economic policies, suggest the BOJ may wait, despite earlier speculation of an October move.
Outlays by households adjusted for inflation rose 2.3% in August from a year earlier, driven by transport and entertainment, the government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025
Japan’s household spending rises more than expected in August
Outlays by households adjusted for inflation gained 2.3% from a year ago in August, led by spending on transport and entertainment.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves after holding a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday after her win.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2025
Takaichi's LDP leadership win makes BOJ rate hike uncertain
Takaichi that the Japanese economy is "on a tightrope," suggesting that it is appropriate to maintain accommodative monetary conditions.
Sanae Takaichi, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2025
Japan's economic policy outlook unclear under Takaichi-led minority government
Much depends on whether new Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi can successfully find an additional coalition partner.
BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda left the door open to policy shifts by reiterating the bank's stance on interest rates, giving no clear signal on a possible rate hike ahead of this month's board meeting.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 3, 2025
BOJ’s Ueda keeps options open by avoiding clear hints for rates
Ueda refrained from telegraphing any policy changes after market speculation over an impending rate hike gained momentum in recent weeks.
August’s unemployment figures showed a slight tempering of Japan's job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 3, 2025
Japan’s jobless rate edges up to highest in over a year
August’s figures showed a slight tempering of the job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
The Bank of Japan is likely to raise rates by the end of this year or early next year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 1, 2025
Japan's tankan survey suggests rate increase sooner rather than later
Corporate sentiment improved as tariff uncertainty lessened following an agreement with the U.S.
Bear kills another person in Japan in record year for fatal attacks
Police investigate the scene of a bear attack that killed one person and injured three others on Friday in the village of Higashinaruse in Akita Prefecture.
Trump arrives in Japan for security and trade talks in test for Takaichi
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Emperor Naruhito upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday evening.
Japanese firms keep expanding in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia
A Nishiyama Seimen employee works at its factory in Sapporo.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Three years later, trial begins for man accused of ex-PM Abe’s assassination
The Nara District Court has scheduled 19 days for the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami before it hands down a ruling on Jan. 21 next year.
Hawks aim to bring energy from Japan Series blowout to Koshien
Hawks players celebrate victory over the Tigers at Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka on Sunday.
Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.
Japan’s youth are apathetic toward the climate crisis. Could anime change that?
“Future Kid Takara,” a series of anime shorts to be aired on NHK Educational TV in November, attempts to educate children about climate change.
Loss to Wallabies doesn't dampen Japan’s optimism
Japan's Michael Leitch controls the ball during the match against Australia on Saturday.
Stars align for Kim-Trump meeting — but any talks will be on N.K. leader’s terms
A South Korean soldier stands next to a TV broadcasting a news report about a possible summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, at the main railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.

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